Automotive Museums By State

This map shows which states have the highest density of automotive museums that can be visited by the public for each state. Only four states in the USA do not have any specific car museums that are open to the public.

The top three states with the most automotive museums are:

Michigan with 16

California with 15

North Carolina with 15

The three states without any automotive museums open to the public are Connecticut, Louisiana, and Hawaii.

As a bonus, there is also the Museum of Transportation in Puerto Rico and six automotive museums you can visit in Canada.

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Miles Through Time Automotive Museum

Miles Through Time Automotive Museum has over 100 years of must-see automotive history on display. This unique, co-op-style museum is located inside of Vintage Garage Antiques which is in an old textile mill called the Old Clarkesville Mill in Clarkesville, GA....

AACA Museum, Inc.

AACA Museum, Inc. at Hershey is a professionally staffed, collecting institution presenting semi-permanent and temporary exhibitions. Exhibitions are supported by educational programs for school and community audiences. It sponsors workshops and other activities...

Cole Land Transportation Museum

The Cole Land Transportation Museum collects, preserves, and displays (before they disappear forever) a cross-section of Maine's land transportation equipment from which this and future generations will gain knowledge of the past. We also wish to remember, record and...

Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum

With its creative architecture and great attention to detail, Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum is home to over 1,400 motorcycles that span over 100 years of production. More than 650 bikes can be seen on any given day, and 200 different manufacturers from 20...

Klairmont Kollections Automotive Museum

Klairmont Kollections is a classic & antique collection of automobiles in Chicago, IL. The premier collection hosts corporate, charity, and private events.

Heart of Route 66 Auto Museum

Heart of Route 66 Auto Museum began as a dream, of Richard Holmes, a Tulsa attorney, and car enthusiast. In 2012 Holmes began putting together an advisory board that was all car lovers and collectors who all shared his dream. And the search for a suitable venue began....

American Muscle Car Museum

Located in Melbourne, Florida, this new 123,000-square-foot complex houses the collection of Mark Pieloch. Mark has been a car enthusiast for over 40 years and has amassed over 400 cars that range from classic 1950s to 1970’s American muscle cars, to modern...

Keystone Antique Truck & Tractor Museum

The Keystone Antique Truck & Tractor Museum has 200+ tractors, 120+ trucks, 25+ cars and vintage Fire Trucks. You'll experience the last century of agricultural heritage incorporating fully restored antique farm tractors, ongoing restoration projects, vintage road...

Cadillac LaSalle Museum

Situated on the beautiful 90-acre campus of the Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners, Michigan, about midway between Detroit and Chicago. As one of the Gilmore partner museums, they join the Gilmore collections, the Classic Car Club of America Museum, the...

America’s Packard Museum

America's Packard Museum was founded in 1992 by Dayton attorney and long-time car collector Bob Signom. Located in an original Packard dealership building constructed in 1917, the museum has officially taken the name of the original dealership - The Citizens Motorcar...

Marathon Village

Marathon Village is a neighborhood born out of the buildings that once housed Marathon Motor Works (1910-1914). The museum now has 5 of the originals

America on Wheels

The America on Wheels building is 43,000 square feet. The museum offers over 23,000 square feet of Exhibit space divided into three main galleries and several smaller exhibits. There are over 75 cars, trucks, motorcycles, & bikes in the museum and exhibits change...

Frick Car & Carriage Museum

After the turn of the 20th century, the development of the automobile profoundly changed American life. In the Frick Car and Carriage Museum, visitors can travel back to the time of carriages, see some of the first horseless carriages to have an impact on Pittsburgh,...

Lenny’s Classic Car Collection

Lenny’s Classic Car Collection has over thirty cars in the collection, consisting of Jaguars, Rolls Royce, Aston Martin, MG, Triumph, Bentley, and Thunderbirds. The museum is housed in a former Willys-Overland Touring car dealership built in 1920 816 Green AveAltoona,...

Mack Truck Historical Museum

What year did the Mack Senior model debut? When was the first Mack diesel engine produced? When did Mack adopt the bulldog as its mascot? Or a little closer to home: What transmission was outfitted on your grandfather’s 1940 Mack? If you’ve got questions – and perhaps...